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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 122, 14 October 1902, Page 3

A remarkable case of longevity is reported from North Walsham (England). In that small Norfolk town there are living together in one house three women and a man, who on August 9, for the fourth time, participated in Coronation ceremonies. On that date they were in the enjoyment of good health, and their respective ages were 85, 84, 84, and 83 years—a grand total of 336 years. The Templeton Road Board (Canterbury) purchased 18,799 small birds’ heads and eggs during the month of June, July, and August, at a total cost of £SB 13s 1 Id. The Board is still buying in considerable quantities. During the year it has purchased 1312 blackbirds’ heads and 89,466 small birds’ heads and eggs. Unless there be a phenomenal rainfall Ballarat reservoirs will be empty by Christmas. The local water supply was never in such an alarming condition as at present, owing to the prevailing drought. The experience of a Wellington farmer who has gone in for poultryraising will interest many of our readers. He has kept his stock up to 350 head, and be finds that after paying £4:2 for food there is a net return of .£79 from the sale of eggs and fowls for the past twelve months. The eggs sold at an average of IsOjd per dozen. The poultry was of the common breed, the average number of eggs laid by each bird during the year was 60. The farmer is in proving the strain of his poultry, ana believes that during the next year he will obtain an average of 100 eggs pei bird.—Post. A hospital doctor has (according to ‘Cassell’s Saturday Journal’) satisfied himself that all the operations of the mind are carried on by the left side of the brain alone. This conclusion was drawn from examination of hundreds of cases of injury to the brain. When the in jury was on the right side of the victim’s mind was not impaired ; "when on the left the reasoning powers were invariably affected. Two cases were especially remarkable : A clergyman suffered from complete decay of the right cerebral hemisphere, but sho.ved no sign of mental deterioration; another man lost by an accident all the right side of his brain, but recovered—his mind was absolutely unimpaired. It is stated by the Hokitika Guardian that Mr Fownes, commercial traveller, of Wellington, who was nearly killed by falling between two railway carriages at Grey mouth, has issued a* writ against the Railway Department claimed £SOO damages. Pain Balm heals bruises, burns and scalds in less time than any other treatment. It is “antiseptic, ’ that is, it prevents putrefaction, and by so doing generally prevents an nnsightly scar remaining after the injury is healed. For lame back, lumbago and neuralgia, Pain Balm has no equal. It has the quality of “getting to the right spots. No sufferer from these distressing affections should defer a trial of this remedy. One application gives relief. Try it. A. Manoy sells it.

An American authority states that peach curl had been effectually controlled by spraying with Bordeaux mixture before the blossoms were opened. In the'latitude of Central Ohio spraying was done about April 12. The disease had practically disappeared from Ohio orchards treated with whale oil soap solution. One of the members of Lord Hawke’s team of cricketers is Mr Randall Johnston (son of Mr G. Randall Johnston, an ex-member of the New Zealand Legislative Council) who is a native of Wellington. A French author is credited with the accidental discovery that eyes exhausted from waiting may be rested by gazing a few minutes at bits of bright coloured silk. After experiment he wound his ink-well with a band of gay-coloured silk, and now gets relief by glancing at this whenever he dips his pen into the ink. Doctors have tired of frightening us about microbes and the smallpox, and now they have started on the subject of tea. It is pointed out that children who begin the day on tea soon become sleepless, and are disinclined for wholesome food. But even adults are not spared. Dr. Slaughter describes the case of a confirmed tea drinker, in whose system a succession of alarming symptoms showed themselves in close succession. First he became sleepless, then he became nervous, and finally he relapsed into a condition closely resembling delirium tremens. Tea has been called ‘‘the cup that cheers, but not inebriates,” but unless doctors behave themselves better in future we must revise this hackneyed quotation. The Chief Justice gave an important decision at Wellington last week affecting the power of stipendary magistrates to punish judgment debtors who make default. His Honor held that under the Act of 1900 the magistrate must be satisfied at the time of hearing the judgment summons that the debtor has means in his possession with which to discharge ; otherwise no order for imprisonment can be issued. This construction will no doubt limit magistrates’ power to punish for not paying debts when due, but His Honor is satisfied that was the intention of the Legislature when passing the Act of 1900. W hich is the biggest school ? A writer in Sandow’s Magazine claims that the Jews’ Free School, Spitalfields, is the largest school, not only in London, but on earth. There are fortyfour classrooms for boys and twentyseven for girls. Each room is fitted as completely as modern invention can make it. The fact that the school has never been closed owing to the spreading of any epidemic indicates the sanitary perfection of the enormous structure now covering two acres of ground. The headmaster is Mr Louis B. Abrahams, 8.A., and his staff consists of sixty-eight teachers. Miss B. Abadi, 8.A., the head mistress, has forty-eight assistants. All the teachers were once pupils of the institution, and the school has turned out some notable men. In Haverholm Park, Lincolnshire, is a record willow tree. It is the largest and oldest in England. At Ift from the ground it measures 27ft 4in in circumference ; at 4ft from the ground, 20ft sin ; and 7ft just over 18ft. The spread of the limbs is 80ft on one side and 56ft on the other. The tree is known to be over one thousand years old. J